Christopher Columbus, who traveled to America during the time period
Christopher Columbus, who traveled to America during the time period


The world economy
Renaissance
The Rise of Russia
Early Latin America
Africa and the Africans in the Age of the Slave trade
The Muslim Empire
Asian Transitions in an Age of Global Change












The World Map Changes
MI: The world map is continually changing in empires and trade routes.
  • European' s small regional area are being combined into larger ones
  • Russian and Ottoman empires are expanding
  • international trade are going into the New World or the Americas
Triggers for Change
MI: Technology and intellectual life was increasing during the early modern period.
  • Ottoman Turks extended rule all the way towards Europe; conflicting with the Christians
  • explorations into the Americas was a growing idea
  • new military technologies - compass, cannons from gunpowder, sailing ships
The big changes
MI: Changes for the world empires impact different areas in society's reactions, international trade, and food.
  • traveling into the Americas was the beginning of different changes
  • new diseases being pass on from traveling, migrations into new world was encourage, growing new food in their own area was also encouraged
  • new military => different political units
Continuity
MI: With the new changes to the empires, there are continuities of gender relations and religion.
  • religion was still being spread
  • slaves trade had more men being taken compared to women
  • societies had in increase of people using gunpowder
  • political change => rise of empires
Impact of daily life: Work
MI: Life during the time of the early modern period was all about working harder.
  • china fell deeper into poverty because of silver taxing
  • Africans were being taken away into a permanent life of slavery
  • London orphans begin working at a young age => child labor
Trends and societies in Early Modern Period
MI: The following chapters are about how global trade and travels increasing change as well as other parts of the work and how new civilizations began on a rise for great power.
*Mercantilism ; wealth = power the idea of have money means power

Causation and the West's Expansion
If you had to choose a single determinism( cultural, technological, or economic) as basic to social change, which one would you pick? Why?
cultural because its the determinism that would influence people. culture is what influence in what people would do and believe.
economy - nation can not strive without the money; money is needed for everything; buying alliances; affects the empire & their choices
conquered land and tried to get natural resources

In what ways might the professed motives of Western explorers and colonist have differed from their real motives?
professed motives of Western explorers and colonist have differed from their real motives be of what they really want in
land, culture, and economy. spread of religions and imperalism. real motives was to expand economically - spread of religion

Would they necessarily have been aware of the discrepancy?
It would be necessary that they should have been aware of the discrepancy because they should
have known how some people did not not enjoy some for the societies. europeans wouldn't notice it because the economy was just manufacturing goods and it was in their culture and it was bigger and better for the nation; imperalism . because it was in their natural they wouldn't notice that it was affect the other people